Questions tagged [.bash-profile]
.bash_profile is one of the scripts the Bash shell reads and executes when started as an interactive login shell.
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terminal inserts characters after CTRL+C
in some of my applications (ArchLinux, Gnome 46) some chars are appended to my username when using CTRL+C to abort a script. Sometimes also in the middle of bash scripts, which makes it a bit painful:
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What does it mean to "run something in a shell profile"
I'm installing Homebrew and I get a message that says:
Next steps:
⁃ To add Homebrew to your PATH run brew shellenv in your shell profile (e.g. ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zprofile)"
What does it ...
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The most proper place to set systemwide shell alias in a Linux system
There are many places to set an alias for all users within a Linux system,
e.g. /etc/profile, /etc/profile.d/*, /etc/bash.bashrc...
I'm wondering which one is the most proper/correct, in other words, ...
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bash scripts not loading any of ~/.bash*
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M1 MacBook
macOS Ventura 13.5.2
zsh as default shell
GNU coreutils installed by homebrew
/opt/homebrew/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnubin added to path in ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, and ~/....
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Git Bash extremely slow start up on Windows
I have read posts similar to this one; it seems my issue is different.
I suspect I'm having this issue due to my .bash_profile because when I delete it and open the terminal again it starts up quickly,...
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Where is my PATH?
When I run the following command, I see several paths and all looks well.
echo $PATH
However, I want to find out where these paths are stored.
I have looked for ~/.bash_profile and ~/.zshrc but they ...
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How to read excel using Powershell
How to extract data from excel such that in first column having the details of machine and in second column having multiple user name and it read excel like it will delete all users from column 2 ...
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How to fetch the name of all user on remote server which is present at 'C:\user' folder and write that name into Excel file [duplicate]
I am trying to get the name of all users of multiple server through powershell and than transfer it to excel file but I only got the name of user in txt file and unable to copy it to excel.
Foreach($...
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-bash: PATH: command not found
I hope someone can help me solve this problem.
I am working on a mac and recently I was trying to use the export path function in .bash_profile to help me run a command from any directory in the ...
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Issues with bash profile
Can anyone see if there are any errors in this bash .profile line?
export PS1="\[\033[38;5;206m\]\h:\W \u $ \[\033[0m\]"
When I activate it, it shows in like this:
$ source .profile
\[\033[...
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writhing in .bash_profile on Mac
I wanna install sql. In installation process I did :
open -t .bash_profile. But when I wanna write something the error say:
You don’t own the file “.bash_profile” and don’t have permission to write to ...
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Windows 10 WSL bash change starting directory
When I launch bash on Windows, it always starts in the directory that it is launched from [/mnt/c/Users/myuser], however I would like it to launch in the WSL $HOME directory [~].
How do I specify the ...
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Bash and Zsh profile confusion
I'm on a mac and am about to start developing, did a clean install on my mac just but my question is what is the difference between ~/.bash_profile, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile, and ~/.bashrc and where can I ...
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$PATH variable is messed up, where is it being sourced from in Mac Catalina
When I echo $PATH in terminal, I see a big string that kind of looks messed and has some old irrelevant paths. I would like to fix this. But first, I'd like to understand when I echo $PATH in terminal,...
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ssh on environment variables on remote machine
how to export environment variables to the remote machine to the specific user.
I am using below command to do export but the echo is returning empty.
I thought to approach in another way by ...
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source ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile stalling terminal
Below I am displaying the structure of my files, some of the code in each, and what I do to try and get it all sourced and ready to do.
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.bash_profile
.bashrc
.profile
.bashrc
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Trying to get Raspbian LITE to open Start X automatically to boot a Web Browser
So I am very new to linux and Raspberry Pi's. I am trying to get my pi to boot up into a web browser. I have been following these instructions (https://die-antwort.eu/techblog/2017-12-setup-raspberry-...
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how to get bash and zsh setup correctly on macOS mojave
I'm running macOS (Mojave.)
I'm wanting to make the switch from default bash to zsh/oh-my-zsh.
Everything I install assumes I'm going to be editing my .bash_profile (or .bashrc.) I'm not 100% on how ...
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Anaconda directory in $PATH - origin obscure
Running Ubuntu 16.04, Cuda 8.0, OpenMPI4
I have the anaconda directory showing up in my $PATH although is not supposed to be there.
echo $PATH | grep anaconda
/opts/relion3/:/opts/pymol/:/opts/...
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Visual studio code integrated terminal path different than normal terminal
I am on MacOS Mojave and I can't figure out why visual studio code's integrated terminal has a different path variable than the normal terminal.
I have checked that VSCode opens /bin/bash (echo $...
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bash: service: command not found
I was having an issue running a mysql command and saw suggestions on a few issues online that suggested using the service command and it seemed to be that it was something that I should have by ...
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Programmatically update bash_profile exports
I have a program which generates some temporary security tokens in a file. I then have to manually copy the tokens from this file and paste it in my bash profile to proceed further.Tokens expire every ...
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No value for $TERM and no -T specified Ubuntu LTS 18.04
I edited my .bashrc and .bash_profile files in the home directory for both the user and root. Everything works perfectly. About a week later, upon reboot I get this error, but everything still works ...
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Why does symlink to VLC break but .bash_profile alias works?
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I can execute VLC from the command line using a .bash_profile alias but not using a sym link.
📝 VLC is located at /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC on my machine
sym link
I tried ...
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Can't export variable in .bash_profile ubuntu 18.04
I tried to export some variable.
I create file .bash_profile and put inside export SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE=local
After it I reboot my ubuntu, login, but nothing happens.
My system is fresh ubuntu 18....
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What does `>>` mean in terminal command?
I came across a command just now given below -
$ echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
From what i can guess, it is probably used for committing the changes in .bash_profile but ...
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How to revert my .bash_profile changes?
I added the below given simple two commands in my .bash_profile -
export PS1="___________________ | \w @ \h (\u) \n| => "
export PS2="| => "
Then commiting them through the source ....
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Execute `ls` whenever user does a `cd` on terminal [duplicate]
I know bashrc is executed on terminal startup. But my use case is something like this,
To execute a specific command, say ls, whenever user executes another specific command, say cd, on the ...
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Run command in bash_profile only when in MINGW64
I am using git bash, and in my .bash_profile I have
cd
Which works when I start MINGW64, but when I open vscode, the console also runs that command. Is there any way for me to only run the cd ...
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Is there a way to enable fuzzy Bash auto-completion like Intellij has?
I use Intellij a lot, and one of the features I love is the auto-completion. Notice how you can skip letters in your input and it guesses what you want based on those letters:
Is there a way to ...
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iTerm2: weird error message when I try to source a configuration file
iTerm2 3.0.15
OS X 10.11.6
I tried recently to configure my terminal, after a clean install. My problem is that when I do it, I get a weird error message. I go in my .bash directory; In it, I have ...
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Adding export utf8 to /etc/profile not working
Trying to set the locale in debian:stretch to utf8. I build a docker image which I then use. Apart of my Dockerfile:
# Set locale
RUN sed --in-place '/en_US.UTF-8/s/^# //' /etc/locale.gen && \...
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This prompt makes terminals wrap mid screen why? [duplicate]
I've the following PS1 prompt:
export PS1="\e[1m\e[38;5;198m\u\e[0m @ \e[1m\e[38;5;208m\h\e[0m : \e[1m\w\e[0m\e[38;5;226m\$(parse_git_branch)\e[0m \e[1m>>>\e[0m "
what happens is that when ...
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How to use a bash profile function to connect remotely and access the remote terminal
I want to write a bash function locally (on MacOS), so when I run this function the first command is to get connected to an ubuntu Remote Desktop through ssh.
In a nutshell:
my_func () {
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Adding git commands to bash profile
I am using OSX and wish to add a function in terminal to run a set of git commands. Therefore, I created a .bash_profile in my home directory with the code below:
# Setting PATH for Python 2.7
# The ...
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How to load parts of bash alias only when logging in via ssh [duplicate]
As the title states, is it possible to have an alias only load when I access the machine through ssh, or better yet, only from a specific computer through ssh?
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`ssh <host>` is a login shell, but `ssh <host> <command>` is not?
I've noticed that when I run a command directly on an SSH host using the ssh <host> <command> syntax, I see the output of .bashrc but not the output of .bash_profile (or .profile).
For ...
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Calling a bash function isn't working as it should to change to recent directory?
So I expect my function to change to a recently modified directory.
This is it:
function cdrc { echo 'cd "$(ls -t | HEAD -1)"'; }
When I want to change to a recent dir:
$~ cd Desktop/Folder
$~ ...
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Fonts are different in vim under byobu compared to vim under screen and normal terminal
The font shows different in vim under normal bash and vim under byobu. Attached is a screenshot.
This is the default byobu setting as soon as I do an apt install byobu.
However, the font looks normal ...
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.bashrc not automatically initalising?
When opening a new terminal, I need to do source ~/.bashrc or source ~./bash_profile before my $PATH variable is initalised. I thought .bashrc did this automatically? How do I make it so I don't need ...
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Win10: VS Code integrated bash not loading ~/.bash_profile
As the title suggest, when I start my git bash regularly it loads my ~/.bash_profile but the one integrated in my VS Code is not loading it.
Where can I put .bash_profile so that it would also load ...
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How to check where my PATH is modified?
I have in my PATH a folder destination included which does not exist any more. Still I just can't find in which file is it set. I checked for .bashrc, .profile, .bash_profile does not exist.
Is there ...
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How to make an alias for openvpn passing sudo password?
I'm trying to create an alias in my .bash_profile, as you can tell I'm new in Linux. This actually runs, but it gets frozen without asking me for my password.
alias convpn = 'cd ~/folder; echo <...
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Screwed up PATH in ~/.bash_profile, now cannot edit it
I actually screwed up the $PATH variable in my ~/.bash_profile while installing some software. Instead of using
export PATH=$PATH:/some/other/path
I idiotically did this
export PATH=~/some/other/...
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How can I alias a binary dependent on the machine I am on
I work on different machines, some as centos7, some are centos6, I build a binary tmux with a different version on each 'type' as the same version cannot runn both.
How can I tell my .bashrc to ...
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bash command on mac terminal not working anymore
I have been trying to install blastn on my mac, but while doing messed up my bash command i guess (not a specialist...)
- using the nano command nano ~/.profile
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Bash profile commands with multiple "'` issues
Good day!
I'm currently trying to get the following alias to work. 'git_fetch' and 'git_tree' are custom alias so dont worry about them.
alias git_workspace='osascript -e 'tell application "Terminal"...
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Extra Character Display in Terminal Command Prompt
I started to see an extra bracket on my Mac Terminal
I thought it is because of my .bash_profile that I might have broke when I modified it.
But NO. I comment the whole file out and I still see that
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Default parameters for command in bash
Setting up a new development VM, and I'm hoping to make it so that the default MySQL user is always a specific user unless otherwise specified.
Ideal command:
$ mysql # translates to mysql -uMyUser -...
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.bashrc running an alias without my approval: fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
I have this in bash_profile, I've narrowed the culprit to:
alias initialpush="git push -u origin `git symbolic-ref --short -q HEAD`"
I cannot properly source bash_profile:
cchilders:~
$ src
fatal: ...
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